ISBN: 9781537628493

WORKING MEN OF ALL COUNTRIES, UNITE!Written in 1848 by political theorists Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, The Communist Manifesto has since been recognized as one of the world's most inf… More...

WORKING MEN OF ALL COUNTRIES, UNITE!Written in 1848 by political theorists Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, The Communist Manifesto has since been recognized as one of the world's most influential political manuscripts. Commissioned by the Communist League, it laid out the League's purposes and program. It presents an analytical approach to the class struggle (historical and present) and the problems of capitalism, rather than a prediction of communism's potential future forms. The seminal work contains Marx and Engels' theories about the nature of society and politics, that in their own words, The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles. The book also briefly features their ideas for how the capitalist society of the time would eventually be replaced by socialism, and then eventually communism.'The Communist Manifesto' is an attempt to explain the goal of communism as well as the theory underlying the communist movement. It argues that class struggles and the exploitation of the lower class are the motivating factors behind historical developments leading to the communist movement. Marx insisted that his brand of socialism was different from others because it was scientifically based in the objective study of history, which he saw as a continuous process of change and transformation. Just as feudalism evolved into mercantilism and then capitalism, capitalism would inevitably give way to its logical successor, socialism, as the necessary result of class struggle.Marx discusses modern industrial society, which is characterized by class conflict between the bourgeoisie (the employers of the wage laborers and the owners of the means of production) and the proletariat (the wage-laborers who do not have their own means of production and therefore must sell their own labor in order to survive). The productive forces of capitalism, he argues, are quickly ceasing to be compatible with this exploitative relationship and therefore the proletariat will lead a revolution different from any previous revolution. Where previous revolutions simply reallocated property in favor of the new ruling class, this revolution would have the proletariat destroying all ownership of private property, which would cause social classes to disappear and a classless society to arise. Marx argues that this development is inevitable and that capitalism is inherently unstable. The Communists intend to promote this revolution and will promote the parties and associations that are moving history towards this natural conclusion. The elimination of social classes cannot come about through reforms or changes in government, but has to happen through a revolution.'The Communist Manifesto' concludes with a discussion about the role of the Communists as they work with other parties and ends with a rallying cry: Let the ruling classes tremble at a Communistic revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win. WORKING MEN OF ALL COUNTRIES, UNITE! Trade Books>Trade Paperback>Social Sciences>Sociology>Sociology, CreateSpace Publishing Core >1<

ISBN: 9781537628493

Everybody should read The Communist Manifesto, and read it more than once. Short, fast-moving and written to be understood by a wide audience, it's a gripping read, a huge intellectual ac… More...

Everybody should read The Communist Manifesto, and read it more than once. Short, fast-moving and written to be understood by a wide audience, it's a gripping read, a huge intellectual accomplishment, and a way of thinking about the world that has shaped almost everything that came after it. It was once said that the second edition of Rousseau's Confessions was bound in the skins of those who had laughed at the first; The Communist Manifesto has had the same kind of impact on our world.Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels dashed it off in the second half of 1847 and published it early in 1848 as revolutionary fervor was sweeping Europe. As the first copies of The Manifesto began to circulate, King Louis-Phillipe of France felt his throne begin to shake; by the end of February he had abdicated and fled to Britain. The next month, revolutions broke out in one small German state after the other (Germany would not be unified until 1871). The revolutionary excitement spread into the Austrian Empire; for a few months it looked as if every king and emperor on the European mainland would be packing his bags. Even the Pope, who at that time still ruled much of central Italy, was forced to flee Rome as the Romans proclaimed a Republic after 1900 years of imperial and papal rule.But Marx and Engels weren't interested in anything as trivial as making propaganda for a European revolution. They believed that they had found the key to all history, the magic decoder ring that made sense out of everything: philosophy, religion, the rise and fall of empires, culture, art. To this day there are millions of people all over the world who think they were right, and there are hundreds of millions more whose worldview has been shaped at least in part by this explosive little book. Trade Books>Trade Paperback>Social Sciences>Sociology>Sociology, CreateSpace Publishing Core >1<

ISBN: 9781537628493

Originally published on the eve of the 1848 European revolutions, The Communist Manifesto is a condensed and incisive account of the worldview Marx and Engels developed during their hecti… More...

Originally published on the eve of the 1848 European revolutions, The Communist Manifesto is a condensed and incisive account of the worldview Marx and Engels developed during their hectic intellectual and political collaboration. Formulating the principles of dialectical materialism, they believed that labor creates wealth, hence capitalism is exploitive and antithetical to freedom.Author Biography: Karl Marx (1818-1883) was born in Trier, Germany and studied law at Bonn and Berlin. In 1848, he settled in London, where he studied economics and wrote the first volume of his major work, Das Kapital, in 1867, with successive volumes following in 1884 and 1894. He lived in London until his death. Trade Books>Trade Paperback>Social Sciences>Sociology>Sociology, CreateSpace Publishing Core >1<

ISBN: 9781537628493

Paperback, [PU: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform], The Communist Manifesto reflects an attempt to explain the goals of Communism, as well as the theory underlying this movement… More...

Paperback, [PU: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform], The Communist Manifesto reflects an attempt to explain the goals of Communism, as well as the theory underlying this movement. It argues that class struggles, or the exploitation of one class by another, are the motivating force behind all historical developments. Class relationships are defined by an era's means of production. However, eventually these relationships cease to be compatible with the developing forces of production. At this point, a revolution occurs and a new class emerges as the ruling one. This process represents the "march of history" as driven by larger economic forces., Modern History To 20th Century: C 1700 To C 1900<